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Smooth Saturday...
Feb. 7th, 2004 04:20 pmI spent pretty much the whole day at the store. Drew picked up Huntur on the way back from picking up mail, and we had a royal time for most of the day.
Except for the fellow who wanted change-of-address forms, which we didn't have. He got loud and somewhat abusive, even after I offered to help him change his address at the post office's web site. That's what really made me shake my head about the whole situation: the guy's so ticked off he can't bring himself to accomplish what he set out to do when I offer to help him accomplish it. Instead, he wants to get some points in by calling me names.
Quoting Jerry Pournelle: scroom.
* * * I'm up to my neck in another wiki system. This one is a fork of WakkaWiki, with the rather unfortunate monicker of WackoWiki. It differs from TWiki in that the latter is purely text-and-Perl based, while Wakka/Whacko is driven by PHP and stores its date in a MySQL database. More details as they become known.
* * * I'm going out to Feht's tonight. Both he and I have put in some rough hours satisfying some clients, and seeing as how I shall probably split tomorrow between the Eternal Paper Chase™ and translation, I figure tonight's about the only chance I'll have for some company. I must say, I'm looking forward to it.
* * * One of the local hams is Maria J., who has spent many years as a Baptist missionary (my words, based on imperfect knowledge) in Central and South America with her minister husband. Last year, she taught an introductory Spanish class at the local education center. We got to talking last Friday, and she graciously agreed to bring her set of notes to the store, where I might make a copy for my own use.
Well, today, she came by and I made the copy. As I fed the pages into the machine, I became convinced that I was holding the equivalent of linguistic gold in my hands. Between the Thomas CDs and this set of notes, I figure a little application on my part should bring excellent results, though in the final analysis, it's going to take practice (and lots of it) for me to acquire fluency, just as it did for me with Russian.
Time to go rest a bit before heading out for Feht"s.
Cheers...
Except for the fellow who wanted change-of-address forms, which we didn't have. He got loud and somewhat abusive, even after I offered to help him change his address at the post office's web site. That's what really made me shake my head about the whole situation: the guy's so ticked off he can't bring himself to accomplish what he set out to do when I offer to help him accomplish it. Instead, he wants to get some points in by calling me names.
Quoting Jerry Pournelle: scroom.
Well, today, she came by and I made the copy. As I fed the pages into the machine, I became convinced that I was holding the equivalent of linguistic gold in my hands. Between the Thomas CDs and this set of notes, I figure a little application on my part should bring excellent results, though in the final analysis, it's going to take practice (and lots of it) for me to acquire fluency, just as it did for me with Russian.
Time to go rest a bit before heading out for Feht"s.
Cheers...
